21.   Local offices, including four in the San Fernando Valley, would operate with skeleton crews.

22.   Now the Council on Compulsive Gambling limps along with a skeleton crew and the state offers no counseling help.

23.   Only a skeleton crew remains to mount the spools of yarn and box the socks.

24.   Scholes was in the office, part of a skeleton crew who watched in horror as markets around the world tumbled.

25.   She suggested directors think about working with skeleton crews through Christmas, officials said.

26.   Some dealers, however, will keep a skeleton crew on hand.

27.   Skeleton crews at the handful of businesses still open said most of the area was without electricity, water and natural gas.

28.   The audience at the end was more than a skeleton crew, but not that much more.

29.   The commission withdrew most of its personnel Friday leaving only a skeleton crew in Baghdad, after the Americans were expelled Thursday.

30.   The skeleton crew in the Yankee office was off Sunday.